what are 2010s?

people were assholes before 2010s (well not all but some).
But the 2010s gave rise to a special breed of it.

For starters today's assholes actually think they're the most morally righteous people to ever live.

The 2010s where you can lose your job, you friends, and home all because of one tweet.
And stop and think how insane that is.
 
The 2010s was full of a lot of music that sounded like this:

Early 2010s:

Late 2010s:

Rappers like Lil Pump and 6ix9ine have that grungy Lil Wayne appearance but are now all colorful and don't look intimidating in the least

K-pop exploded worldwide after Gangnam Style in 2012 was such an enormous hit

Mainstream movies were overwhelmingly dominated by capeshit and nostalgia bait for millenials; quality films like The Lighthouse are still out there and still being made, but they're only really spread by word of mouth

Mainstream video games were overwhelmingly dominated by yearly sequels to increasingly older franchises with sneaky, uncouth methods of monetization; quality games like Undertale and Yakuza are still out there and still being made, but they're only really spread by word of mouth

In terms of pop culture, it was definitely a decade that was far different from most of the past. Encroaching political correctness and the fear to offend retards on Twitter made for a decade full of increasingly milquetoast garbage, which went into overdrive after the 2016 election. And now with the soon to be overturned victory of Joe Biden, the incessantly insane woke community is just more invigorated than ever, with a strong sense of authority and spite that's been boiling for years.

I always like to bring up Funko Pops on this subject, because they're such a perfect example of the current state of pop culture: They feature characters and people from absolutely everything, from TV shows; to product mascots; to politicians; to historical figures. But they strip the facial details of the character, make the eyes these creepy, black bug-like dots, oversize the heads, and simplify the bodies, to make them all aesthetically mesh with one another. They're cynical and uniform, devoid of artistry, just like so much mainstream entertainment today. The most creative stuff came from the internet, but the internet is spread so thin, creators could suddenly rise and fall at any time.

It was definitely a confusing, transitionary decade that was hard to define by anything particularly positive, but we're also less than a year out from it, so it's a question that'll get better answers in several years. It was hard to define what would be remembered from the 2000s in the year 2010, too, because so much of it was still fresh and recent. If you went back then and asked me what would be known as silly nostalgic meme material, I know I wouldn't have said Shrek and Evanescense's Bring Me to Life.
 
It was a decade of extreme cynicism, moral high-grounding, and clout chasing.

The trends of the era where all self-destructive in ways that no other trends in previous years were.

Clout-chasing lead to many dangerous trends of people hurting themselves in “challenges” and a distinct distancing of people away from those seen as unfavorable, overall making us less social creatures.

Cynicism crept its way into everything as everything need to say how by the books they were, and be tongue and cheek about how they are doing the usual trends of Hollywood in some pseudo-intellectual writing style.

moral high-grounding has just been politics for the past years, hence why racism and sexism Warriors took off.



The 2010s were nothing more than a gigantic hurdle of build up from previous decades:
Everyone joining the internet in 2007 lead to the internet going from a small space of individual forums to a town square where everyone is trying to show the world they are the best.

Stuff like the Big Bang Theory and Dark Knight/ Iron Man making nerd culture cool to the point where everything is capes or a further extension to 2000s 80s nostalgia.

The slow decline of movies and tv making everyone move to online content.

Years of Republican/ Bush bashing from The Daily Show, Colbert, and SNL bitting liberals in the rear as the fake news agendas they once pushed and huge mockery of Republicans came back to bite in the form of Trump.

A political system with very little change from the 90s Dems and 80s Republicans finally being forced to move on by Trump and Bernie.

People listening to comedians and South Park for news because the 2000s showed how lacking real news is to the point where comedies are being seen as better substitutes. This extends to online content creators as well.

Two generations (Millenials and X) being so held back by nostalgia that they have forced the entertainment industry into stagnation.

And a generation so he’ll bent on not being the old Religious Right of the 90s and 80s that they go to the farthest Left and become just as intolerable, if not worse, then their Bible thumping-Boomer parents in retaliation.
 
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